11.   To help alleviate public concern, the environmental group Defenders of Wildlife has offered to pay ranchers market value for any livestock that the wolves kill.

12.   Farmers and local residents claim the wolves kill their livestock and pets, and spread fear in the long, sparsely populated Osterdalen.

13.   Farmers complain that the wolves kill livestock, while conservationists said there is no proof that the pair ordered killed had done any damage.

14.   Sheep farmers welcomed the order while evironmentalists pledged to fight it, saying there was no proof that THE two wolves had killed any livestock.

15.   The activists said there was no proof that those two wolves had killed any livestock.

16.   The wolf had killed several domestic animals in Kyzylsai, and many residents had been afraid to leave their houses after dark.